World Password Day: resources to help you on this special occasion

The 5th of May is World Password Day, the ideal opportunity to raise awareness of passwords with your organisation's staff and senior management.

This is the fourth year passwords have been honoured in this way. The event recurs annually on the first Thursday of May.

To help, we have compiled a few quick resources to help you make the most of this auspicious occasion.

The World Password Day website: here you can test the security of passwords, read advice and even watch videos about the importance of password security (1075 views on Youtube!) https://passwordday.org/

And Billy Austin, VP of security at LOGICnow, has shared a few tips on password safety:

Change all default passwords on vendor provided devices and applications. The most obvious example we can all relate to is the home wireless router where Admin is the login and ‘Password' is the password.

Remove all account IDs and Passwords from terminated employees, avoiding unauthorized access. Today's plentitude of logins present a challenge to IT while attackers see this as a potential backdoor into the crown jewels - your data.

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